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[–] NinGafHater 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Oh Bullshit. What competitors would that be? They've said in the past they aren't competing with Sony and MS. I have every console they ever put out. And the Wii U AND it's games are the worst they've ever done. I have all the big first party games too.

Mario Kart was boring as shit, nowhere near as good as MKWii. 3D World was New Super Mario Bros in 3D and I was already sick to death of the "beat the timer to the flagpole" shit. The only games I really enjoyed were the two Zelda remakes, those were games I kept coming back to the WiiU to keep playing. And I also loved the originals.

Sorry Nintendo, I don't think I'm gonna buy the NX at launch. Your games have been sucking worse and worse each generation since Gamecube. I'll get the new Zelda game for the WiiU. It's what I should have done with the original Twilight Princess, because I really regret getting the Wii version instead of the Gamecube one.

They just need to leave the home console industry already and focus on handhelds. Because that's where their good games are now, the 3DS.

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[–] rabidjackdaniels [S] ago 

I might be in the minority here but MK Double Dash is still my favorite Mario Kart. Such a blast playing that one. And I've got high hopes for the new Zelda but I think they announced the NX version too early. Let the Wii U have its own special swan song and push another big game to draw people in to NX, not merely a port.

It'd be terrible if they left the home console market, and it already cut deep for me when Sega folded, but if they can't adapt to the broader market with NX their days in it are numbered. Cash reserves (which are depleting btw) won't be there forever to pad out the failures.

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[–] this_somuchthis ago 

more like it was on par with XB1 and they didn't want to be two generations behind. i hope they put out something half-decent, specs wise. the games shouldn't be a problem.

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[–] rabidjackdaniels [S] ago 

It would be completely amateur of Nintendo to haphazardly redo the entire system design this late and this close to its supposed launch, but like others are saying if the March release doesn't end up happening (it could happen for Japan I guess, but elsewhere? Nah), this could be the reason.

Which just begs the question of how they fucked up so bad they couldn't solidify a future-proofed design in the 4 years they've had since the Wii U released.

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[–] My_Name_Is_Bad ago 

If you skip the biggest show of the industry

Biggest or not, it's becoming increasingly irrelevant. Honestly, I think they haven't done any showing of NX because they're still not fucking done with the final hardware. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they wind up delaying it from March until the fall. If TGS comes and goes and we still haven't seen hide nor hair, then it's time to worry.

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[–] Somehumanmale 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Prediction: The March "release" isn't going to happen. It's a date soon enough to keep N fans on board despite the lack of Wii U support past summertime. I fully expect it to be holiday 2017. We would know more if it was coming in nine months. If they'd come out three months ago and admitted it was a year and a half away people would have been absolutely furious.

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[–] SpaceC0w 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

They didn't delay the console to stop imitators, they did it because they had too few games ready. Classic Nintendo problem.

I also think it was a bit crazy to not show it at E3. After all, were they worried about ruining the WiiU's holiday sales? There won't be any regardless! But this is one of those "wait and see" situations. It'll be easy to say how bad their strategy was once we've seen the machine. Say what you want about the WiiU, I really enjoyed mine, and that's knowing full well the gimmick wasn't very good and the third-party support was the worst it's ever been.

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[–] rabidjackdaniels [S] ago 

Agreed; NX could be good, it could be bad. Signs are pointing at anything from another N64 or another Wii U tho, and they really need something more like the N64 again; modestly successful in light of their biggest competitor, appeals to the West, pretty good Western 3rd party support, amazing 1st/2nd party games and not a generational step back in terms of power. If they could get the Japanese 3rd party support to GC levels (and caliber) as well, NX could be fantastic.

But I'm having many doubts about that.

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[–] MegaMalka 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

This fucking company.

The only way for Nintendo to make any progress in the industry and be a real competitor is to clean house, starting with Miyamoto. The guy is a relic who is stuck in the late 80s/early 90s. But, just how Tyler won't ditch the Cuck mod team, this will never happen.

Expect the NX to have the exact same life cycle as the WiiU. I bet my life on it.

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[–] askfu 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Shame on you, dude. Nintendo deserve being defended - they are a spark of originality in the mudane sea of samey shit that is Sony and Microsoft this era. At least Nintendo offer something unique.

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[–] rabidjackdaniels [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I'm not a Nintendo hater and in fact like a lot of their work, but I also like being fair and criticize them when I feel they deserve it. Their handling of NX to the public has been underwhelming to say the least, and the company isn't the saint lots of people think it is. I also disagree that Sony is part of the samey sea of mundane, when they have stuff like Dreams, Detroit and Horizon coming out. Even Microsoft looks pretty good with Recore and Scalebound (hate the dubstep tho).

Nintendo does good things but they could be doing so much better if they got their ducks in a row.

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[–] 5666209? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Their competitors have copied things in the past.It is a legit concern.The other main reason for the delay is getting games ready.I mostly only play Nintendo games and only but a few games per year.Many concerns that effect other people don't effect me.Besides what I said about NX is the previous sentences about the delay the only things we actually know about it is the March 2017 release date.All of the other rumors are false unless confirmed directly by Nintendo themselves.

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[–] rabidjackdaniels [S] ago 

Their competitors followed market trends and did what they felt was right; it just so happened Nintendo did them first. That's if we're talking about Sony and Microsoft. Sega actually did some things Nintendo later copied (custom optical disc media format, controller-based motion controls (Sega Bass Fishing peripheral on DC predates Wii nunchuck + Wiimote by some years), memory expansion carts (1MB cart w/ KOF '96 predates the Expansion Pak by 2 years, "2nd-screen" concept predating the PocketStation, GC/GBA connectivity and Wii U Gamepad)), and Sega themselves copied from those like NEC (CD add-on for a cartridge system, for example) and back from Nintendo.

That's just how the industry goes. Things that would later be copied and iterated on, but that didn't stop them from trying and didn't make them come up with weak sauce to explain why they skipped the biggest media event of the year (when they made consoles and gave a fuck). And the thing about the delay, is that time-wise it does not line up with a traditional console launch and they're going to miss out on big holiday sales.

That March release is not intentional, it was delayed. And either something very big happened on the production side (the AMD chip rumors may or may not be true) or they did not feel like they had a strong enough product to compete with the holiday releases, PSVR and maybe PS Neo if that's actually coming out this year.

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[–] ZeroXVX 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I just can't see the NX doing that much better than the WiiU. They seem to once again be relying on one feature or gimmick, hoping that it sells the system like the Wii. At this point in Nintendo's life with very little 3rd party support and bare online community I just don't see the draw, other then their 1st party titles which didn't help the WiiU sell at all.

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[–] rabidjackdaniels [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Hopefully it's an improvement, because their software (when they're pushing the quality) deserves better platforms. But if they can't make the NX successful their time in the home console market is over; no one will take them seriously anymore if NX bomb, except when it comes to handhelds.

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[–] ZeroXVX 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah, I want to play mario maker and such, but I'm not willing to spend money on a dead console just for 3-5 1st party games. The issue has always been their hardware being the bottom of the barrel when compared to everyone else. In a perfect world they would ditch the console and just focus on games, but I doubt that will ever happen.

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